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[k_a_webb]

Today turned into a ‘working on the website’ day. Every time I planned on stopping to start writing I found something else to test out, because, as I said before, I want the website to be as easy to navigate as possible. This is my focus, even though I mirror everything on Livejournal and Dreamwidth. If anyone would like to head over and check out the changes I would really appreciate it, especially with the World Walkers stories.

Right now I wish I had someone to help me with the site, because I need to create more menus and more tabs for those menus, as I’ve been trying to make the sidebar less long. It was a bit unwieldy before, and still is a little now, but it’s much better than it was.

Tomorrow I want to post at least two stories, which I’m planning on being ‘write more’ stories (I love that button – please, everyone, use the button more). Then I have new World Walkers stories planned, plus ‘write mores’ and new Donor House stories.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

Comments

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[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

What you have now kind of makes sense. If I think of improvements, I'll let you know.

One thing that occurred to me is how the World Walkers stories are organized. Having a chronological order is sensible. But when I read stuff, I'm more likely to look for stories about a specific character or world, and read those together in chronological order; rather than the whole bunch for the setting. And being able to sort things in different ways, that really gets into database territory, which is over my head and probably beyond what the buildware for your website can handle.

>>Right now I wish I had someone to help me with the site, because I need to create more menus and more tabs for those menus, as I’ve been trying to make the sidebar less long.<<

Yeah, it's not elegant yet. The trick with sidebars and menus is to think in fractals. You use the biggest categories for the main tabs and then sort smaller things within those. I've got my website into pretty good shape that way; it has a nice nesting function. But figuring out what categories to use can be a challenge.

>>Tomorrow I want to post at least two stories, which I’m planning on being ‘write more’ stories (I love that button – please, everyone, use the button more).<<

I love the "Favorite" "Like" "Write More" set very much. It lets me distinguish between stuff I've read and commented on because it's there, and things that are extra appealing, and things I want to see more of. Much more refined than the original "If it gets comments, it gets extended" approach.